HEY, UW HAWK CAM SITE DESIGNERS, you guys are missing a great opportunity over there to disrespect your viewers, your product the video, and the subject under observation. I'm certain you could get Prudential and Blackberry or summat to pay you a couple of bucks each day to reach out there and staple an advertisement or two onto the birdie's little heads. Use a template on their wings to flap around when they're big enough, you silly bastards are wasting valuable ad space -- all those eyeballs.

yay! mom porn. This hawk mom is a lot more affectionate than the NYU mom who is not at all hands/beaks on. I like how this WI mom stuffs the two babies under her belly. Never seen the NYU mom do that even when the babies were that small (NYU hawks are a little more grown -- they have black feathers showing up).

Speaking of ads, some enterprising soul could park in the lot with a sign on the roof of the car. As the saying goes "you can't buy advertising like that"

And speaking of squirrels, I was having a bad day deer hunting once several years ago, hadn't seen anything. The sun was up and the day was warming up and I sat in the tree stand watching the squirrels.

They were scampering up and down the oak tree trunks. Burying acorns, then hurrying back up the tree for more. All of a sudden, they all ran towards the boles of the trees, and bear hugged them.

"This is new" I thought to myself, and from off my right a redtailed hawk came swooping through the trees, miraculously not dodging ,but missing every branch, leaf, and twig with nary a twitch of its wings. I sat there awed by the display it made of its mastery of flight. It continued on for about 60 yards and lit on a branch on my left.

All the squirrels were watching too, and the ones the hawk had passed by jumped out on their respective limbs, barking, and flipping their tails as warning to their bretheren.

So there we sat, the hawk on its branch, me on mine, and all the squirrels looking at that big bad squirrel eating machine, and raising as much noise as they could.

A flash out of the corner of my eye caught my attention, so I turned back to my right again...to see a second hawk coming along in the same exact flight path as the first hawk.

Only this one was dodging and dipping, heading from distracted squirrel to distracted squirrel, knocking the off their perches.

It wasn't catching them, it was just knocking them out of the trees, one after another. Squirrels rained down onto the forest floor. The second hawk continued, and eventually passed the first, kept flying until it was about 100 yards away, where it lit. And all the squirrels between the 2 hawks jumped out, faced hawk #2, and started barking and flipping their tails. Hawk #1 took off, and flew from squirrel to squirrel, knocking them off their perches, until it was lost to my sight.

I don't know if the hawks were playing, or were young siblings learning to hunt, but it was the damdest thing to see. I almost fell outta my stand laughing so hard. Never did see a deer though.